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15-year-old girl dies after getting hit while riding e-scooter, police say

LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - A 15-year-old girl died after she was hit while riding an electric scooter, according to authorities. Police said the crash happened Oct. 21 at around 3:08 p.m. on Racetrack Road. The family identified the victim as Torrianne Mortensen. Torrianne was riding from the Saguaro Park Trail and crossing in a marked crosswalk, police said. Police said vehicles in the adjacent lane had slowed or stopped as she crossed. A southbound 2012 Nissan Rogue approached from behind, passed those vehicles and entered the crosswalk without stopping, hitting the 15-year-old. The girl was taken to the hospital where she died. Police identified the driver as Michael Stanton, 64. He has been charged with vehicular manslaughter, failure to exercise due care for a pedestrian, and overtaking a vehicle stopped at a crosswalk, police said. Police said impairment and speed were not…

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Anthropic are the Good Guys — LessWrong

In a way I think it started on July 16, 1945, not far from where I’m sitting now. I think it’s impossible to understand Anthropic without putting yourself into the shoes of the Los Alamos physicists huddling together at sunrise in the aftermath of Trinity. It must have felt like an initiation. An end to childhood, an end to innocence. We can no longer afford to fuck around, those brilliant men must have thought. Unless we figure out how to live peacefully together on this planet, we are all going to die. It’s time to get serious. I imagine them looking at each other in the dusty tent. Are we really doing this? And the answer coming back, clear and cold and pitiless: We have to. There is nobody else who can. The organization they create is optimized for the accumulation of power, subject to the constraint of being seen as “the good guys”. That is to say, people in the organization will…

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To make AI morally good, tech companies are turning to religion. But some say it isn’t that simple

Posted October 25, 2026 6:59 am. “These are not questions a lab can answer,” Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah said earlier this year at the Vatican’s presentation of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI. “They are questions traditions like yours have carried for millennia.” Amid this much-discussed turn to faith, there has been little public scrutiny surrounding what exactly these technology companies think religion is — and, perhaps more important, what they hope to get out of it. As executives sound the alarm about AI’s destructive potential and debate the need to develop morally good models, they are increasingly seeking input from philosophers and faith leaders. The executives’ philosophy goes something like this: that religion can help inform AI to be morally good in an environment where fears about it — founded and unfounded — are hopscotching across the culture. Because these companies…

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‘You Can See Everything’ surges with $19.5M at box office; ‘Clayface’ takes No. 1

Posted October 25, 2026 1:17 pm. The Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim-directed “You Can See Everything” increased from 855 locations to 2,655. In expansion, it continued to blow away expectations. With $45.1 million in two weeks, it already ranks among the highest grossing documentaries ever. “You Can See Everything” has turned into a sensation partly by drawing waves of Gen Z moviegoers. Its awards season prospects are also growing. If “You Can See Everything” is nominated for best picture at the Oscars, it would be the first documentary nominated for Hollywood’s top prize. “A24 invested a reported $7 million in an interesting but complicated idea without a beginning, middle or end, that’s turned into a zeitgeist film about money, dreams, truth and reality,” said David A. Gross, who publishes the box office newsletter FranchiseRe. ‘Clayface’ succeeds on a smaller scale for DC While such…

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